"How could this happen? Where are my parents?"
I couldn't accept what I saw. This simple rural courtyard where I had lived for more than ten years had become a ruin! I was so angry that I rushed into the courtyard and started looking around. My mind was blank at the time and I didn't even know what I was looking for.
I was rummaging through the rubble on the ground like crazy. I don't know how long it had been, when suddenly a small hand rested on my shoulder from behind. The hand was so soft and boneless, and the warmth from it calmed my brain a little.
"Don't worry. You have to trust Senior Ji Yong. You won't be able to accomplish anything if you rush now. It's better to calm down and think about where you can find a breakthrough."
Lin Yingxue sighed as she stood behind me, and after I heard her words, my heated brain gradually cooled down. Indeed, even if I turned the whole place upside down, I would never find my parents, let alone any clues. Instead of wasting my energy, I might as well think about how to solve this problem.
I found a brick and sat on the ground. It was still dark, so no one noticed us. I wanted to find someone to ask what was going on with my house, but I didn't know who to ask.
Seeing that my Abu didn't say anything that day, Lin Yingxue found a brick and sat next to me and said, "I've already told Commander Bai, he's trying to contact that old man to find out what's going on. If even he can't help, then we can't do anything at all."
As she spoke, Lin Yingxue turned her head to look at the ruins around us. She seemed to be moved by the scene and whispered, "Think carefully, if Senior Ji Yong really got into trouble, how would he leave you clues?"
Lin Yingxue's words once again woke me up, and soon, a memory from the past appeared in my mind.
That probably happened when I was in junior high school. I was in adolescence at that time and was very rebellious in everything I did. My mother also controlled me very strictly, which made me very dissatisfied with my mother. I would never tell my parents about anything and would do whatever I thought of by myself.
One time I was caught smoking in school, and the teacher called my parents to the school. I remember it very clearly. My mother cried and almost beat me to death in the office that day. If my boss hadn't stopped her, I would probably be a disabled person now.
After the incident, I went home. My mother didn't cook for me that day, and I was very angry at the time. I thought, what does my smoking have to do with you? I bought the cigarettes with my own pocket money, and I didn't steal or rob. Why did you hit me
At night, I was so hungry that I couldn't sleep, and I was also very angry, so I packed some clothes and left home to find a buddy I had a good relationship with at the time, but not Little Fatty Dong Ge and the others, because I thought it was better not to let Dong Ge and the others know about this, otherwise they would definitely make a big deal out of it.
That buddy taught me to smoke. When I arrived at his house, it was around ten o'clock in the evening. When I entered his house, I found that he was drinking and playing poker at home with some friends from society.
The guy asked me what I was doing here. I told him about my situation and said I was staying here for a few days. But before I even entered the house, the guy pushed me out of the room and said to me with a sneer, "You were caught smoking at school today, and I was implicated. How dare you come to my house and eat and live for free?"
Who could have thought that this guy would change his mind faster than turning the pages of a book? Just as I was about to argue, he brought a few of his friends from society to the room, beat me up, and then kicked me out.
I was already full of anger, and after being treated like this, I was ready to find a knife and take a few people away to be buried with me. There was no point in living like this anyway. So I braved the cold wind in the middle of the night, took the only ten yuan left on me, and prepared to find a small supermarket to buy a knife. But before I took a few steps, I saw my father, who had fallen asleep before, quietly waiting for me in the corner in front of me.
I was already overwhelmed by anger, but the moment I saw my dad, I calmed down, gave up my previous terrible thoughts, and lowered my head to accept my dad's education.
But who would have thought that my father didn't scold me. Instead, he took me to a small noodle shop to have a bowl of noodles. On the way, he even passed me cigarettes several times. I didn't dare to accept them at first, but from the look in his eyes, it seemed that he didn't mean to blame me, so I relaxed my guard and took the cigarette from his hand.
After dinner, my father took me to an open space not far behind my yard. He smoked with me and talked to me about reason. I probably have forgotten what he said at the time, but there is one sentence that I still remember clearly.
"You are grown up now. We can't stop you from doing whatever you want to do, but you have to know that you have to bear the consequences of your own actions. Don't regret it later and then blame me and your mother."
Anyway, my dad and I talked for a long time in the open space at the back that day, and I was in a good mood in the end. Although I continued to smoke afterwards, at least I didn’t make my mom angry again. After that, that open space became the place where my dad and I would chat alone. Whenever something happened, my dad and I would go to that open space to talk without an appointment, including the last time I came back and talked to my dad about his past.
It is worth mentioning that since that conversation with my dad, the guy who taught me to smoke dropped out of school and disappeared. Now that I think about it, I guess this was also my dad’s trick.
Now that my dad has mysteriously disappeared, if he would leave me any clues, then the clues must be in that vacant lot! So I immediately got up and took Lin Yingxue to the vacant lot not far behind the house. From a distance, I saw a brick on the vacant lot!
This is basically a piece of abandoned farmland. I have never seen a brick placed here, and placed in such a conspicuous position. It is obvious that this brick is the message left by my father!
I immediately stepped forward and took a closer look at the brick, and discovered that there seemed to be some scribbles on the brick. At first glance, I couldn't tell what it was, because there was no pattern at all in this scribbles, and it looked like both numbers and English letters.
Lin Yingxue frowned and looked at it for a long time and asked, "What does this thing mean?"
After staring at the scribbles for more than ten seconds, I finally understood what was going on and said, "This should be a section of numbers that my dad cut in half and then messed up the order of the top and bottom. All I have to do is cut the numbers in half and then draw the top part on the bottom."
Having said that, I immediately started to decipher the number completely, and then I found that it was actually a mobile phone number!
Lin Yingxue realized that this was a mobile phone number and immediately asked me to dial it. I didn't wait for her to say anything. I had already entered the number into my phone and dialed it.
Why did my dad leave this phone number here? Could it be that the owner of this phone number has a way to rescue my dad
I waited anxiously for the other party to answer the phone, but more than thirty seconds passed and the other party still didn't answer the phone. Just when I was about to give up and ask Bai Qi to help find out what was going on with this number, the call was finally connected.
"Is that Xiaowen? Why are you calling me so early?"
Hearing the voice coming from the phone, Lin Yingxue and I were stunned! This voice was clearly my father's voice! And judging from the way he answered the phone, it seemed that he was still sleeping just now.
"Dad? What happened to you? Where are you now?"
Since my dad answered the phone, it proved that he was fine, and I finally felt relieved.
"I'm in my new home, didn't I tell you?"
My dad spoke with full confidence and without any sense of guilt, and at this moment I really wanted to cry and scold him. Since he was fine, why didn't he tell me earlier? He made me worry about it for nothing!
I didn't give him face and directly vented my anger into the phone. My dad seemed a little embarrassed and softened his tone, "There's nothing we can do about it. Since we're moving, we naturally have to throw away the old phone. You know, your mom and my phones have been monitored. I just want to live a peaceful life for a few days. It's just that after we threw the phone away, we realized that we didn't copy your phone number, so we couldn't find you. I had to put my phone number in a code on the open space behind our yard. I didn't expect you to find it so quickly, hahaha!"
I took a deep breath, tried to suppress my anger, and continued to ask, "Then how did your phone end up in that old man's hands? I thought you had been captured by that old man!"
"Don't worry about that. He has no way to capture me right now. But if I move again, I might be in real danger. Besides, I don't know how my phone got into that old man's hands. I guess he located my phone and found it. It doesn't matter. If he wants it, give it to him. It's not worth much anyway. Is this your phone number? Your mother asked me about it yesterday. I'll write it down first. Is there anything else?"
I really didn't want to continue chatting with him, so I said unhappily, "It's okay, just go to sleep!"
After saying that, I hung up the phone. Lin Yingxue, who was listening quietly at the side, naturally understood what happened and sighed, "It turned out to be just a mistake. I said that Senior Ji Yong couldn't fall into that person's hands so quickly."
After hanging up the phone, my brows furrowed even more than before. After hearing what Lin Yingxue said, I slowly turned my head and said, "Don't you hear that there is a big problem with this matter?"